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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 5384194" data-attributes="member: 42582">I just read the story following the link from the <a href="http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd/4spot/20101122" target="_blank">WoTC interview</a> with the author.I thought it was a good story. For me, it captured the feel of a group I gamed with on-and-off at university in the mid-90s, which had more than its fair share of self-destructive individuals. I also liked the smoothness of the writer's movements between ingame and out-of-game narration, which captured some features of play really well independent of the dynamics of the particular group being described.I think those who worry that this sort of thing is bad for the game need to remember that it's a fiction, not a journalistic report. In some ways I think it's good for the game to capture, in a literary way, it's power as a vehicle for communicating emotional and aesthetic experience. For me, at least, the story - especially the first half of the expedition to the dragon's mountain - leaves open the possibility of a game that is emotionally powerful like the one described, rather than anodyne like the school-sanctioned game, but neither destructive nor dysfunctional.Bart Carroll's interview with the author is worth reading too.</blockquote>